question: why does Ark Encounter, a religious propaganda “museum” that, among other things, proclaims that a) Noah hand-fed pterosaurs and b) the government is covering up evidence of a second biblical flood on Mars, have some of the BEST prehistoric reconstructions I’ve ever seen?
the top guy is Pakicetus, mother of modern whales. next is a Dicynodont, Cotylorhynchus (a RIDICULOUS stem-mammal), and an Istiodactylid pterosaur.
but truthfully, what I’m most desperate to see is the diorama of giants being fed to a beautiful Carnotaurus
@pangur-and-grim Not just HIS bankroll, sadly. Also a looooot of money from local taxpayers sunk into that crazy ass massive propaganda boat. It’s right up the highway from me in KY. The Ark people talked the county and state into ENORMOUS tax credits and incentives because it was going to be soooooo successful and create insane tourist dollars and traffic…but it didn’t…because it’s *CRAZY TOWNE.*
I can only hope that it’ll go bankrupt, be sold off, and turn into a kitschy, tongue in cheek roadside attraction like those in Rock City outside Mammoth Cave.
this is in response to my tags:
oh dear, that make it significantly less fun
I’m also extremely impressed with the accuracy and realism of their animal models.
I bet the artists were like “Meh, a job’s a job, baby”
And I find it strange how creationists love to show prehistoric animals on the ark.
If I were a creationist, I would find it the perfect excuse to say “…well, those animals all died in the flood, because they didn’t have enough room on the ark”, or something.
(Remember, back when dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals were beginning to be discovered and named, in the days of Georges Cuvier, the strict, unbending belief was that nothing could EVER go extinct.)
